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Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site
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Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!
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Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois
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Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Trucks, Patina, And Main St USA!
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ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday
Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) - We sometimes see a guy at car shows with a 1957 International Harvester pickup. He tells us his grandfather bought the truck brand new, and converted it for his job as a pipeline welder. The welder/generator is belt driven off the driveshaft, there is a gearbox that allows either [...]
Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!
(Words and photos by Steve Magnante) – It has been over a decade since the April 2000 issue of Hot Rod magazine appeared on newsstands across the nation. The main image depicted an austere white Chevy Chevette Scooter riding on skinny front tires and plain steel rims – emerging from a dense cloud of tire [...]
Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois
(Photos by Sean Smyth) – While Chad was up on the scaffolding in Cordova, Illinois during the ADRL Spring Drags last weekend, BangShift contributing photographer Sean Smyth was at ground level blasting away with his still camera. He captured some great images before coming down with something and having to leave the track in a [...]
Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Trucks, Patina, And Main St USA!
(Words by Greg Rourke — Photos by Rouke/Chiluk) – The Earlville cruise night only happens once a year in Earlville, Il., and that might be just enough. They shut down most of the town to accommodate the cars that come from all over, this year car count was well over 300. It looked like almost [...]
ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday
That’s right folks, LIVE ADRL Drag Racing is coming to BangShift.com and your intrepid host Chad Reynolds will be there guiding you through a weekend full of big and small tire drag racing. After getting a call from Kenny Knowling asking if we wanted to come hang out with the ADRL up in Cordova Illiinois [...]
Rest in Peace: Hummer Brand Officially Dead
Posted in General News April 7, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Well, that’s the end of that. Hummer dealers were notified yesterday that letters were being drawn up and sent to them regarding the ending of their franchise agreements. After the deal with Chinese company Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. fell through, the casket was basically sealed. The brand enjoyed massive success during the free spending [...]
Killer Drag Video: Seven Minutes in Early Pro Stock Heaven
Posted in HISTORIC April 7, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The birth of Pro Stock as a drag racing class is one of the clearest examples of mechanical evolution in racing. Starting in the early 1960s when the Big Three started funneling money into drag racing programs and promotion, Stockers got quicker, faster, and crazier. The great mechanical minds that populated NHRA Pro Stock when [...]
Killer Truck Video: A Pair of Hellacious Chevys Crushing Cars
Posted in MISC April 6, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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There are few things cooler to our simplistic minds than watching large lifted trucks drive over cars. Call us names if you want, but the two trucks in this video, which take two divergent approaches to getting over said junkers, are bad ass. in fact, the red crew cab may be our favorite crew cab [...]
Shop Tour: Custom Automotive Machine – Weymouth, Ma
Posted in General News April 6, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We stopped by Custom Automotive Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts, last weekend to beg a favor off shop owner and operator Dana Hard. We had managed to completely botch the removal of broken exhaust studs out of Goliath’s exhaust manifold and we knew Dana had the tools to help us out. That and we wanted to [...]
Road Racing Video: In-Car Action at the Rockingham Chump Car Race
Posted in RACING & ACTION April 6, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Our pal Jeff Huneycutt, who is an ace freelancer and the operator of StreetMuscleAction.com sent us a cool video link of some in-car action at the Rockingham ChumpCar race. Huneycutt and crew won the race and if they performed the whole time like the two laps in this video, it as a cake walk. They’re [...]
Arnie Beswick Driven 1965 Mercury Comet A/FX Car Heads to Auction, SOHC Motor and All
Posted in General News April 6, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We’ve been Comet crazy here over the last couple of days, but reader Phil Cooper tipped us off to one of the coolest Comets ever built. This A/FX car was raced by Arnie Beswick who is known for his prolific career as a Pontiac racer, but like Sox and Martin, he had a brief career [...]
The Foose John Deere Project is Complete, Can They Put it Back?
Posted in General News April 6, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The Chip Foose John Deere 4020 project was unveiled a little while back and frankly we didn’t say anything much about it because we were trying to figure out what the hell they had sone with the stately 4020 tractor that they started with. Jeff Huneycutt tipped us off to a photo gallery of the [...]
Crazy Fail Video: Aussie Guy Almost Runs Over The Starter While Doing a Burnout
Posted in CRASH & BURN April 6, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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This is about as close a call as you’ll ever see at the strip. We can say that this is the only time we’ve ever seen a starter actually jump for his life to get away from a wayward car. Aussie Racer Rod Hadfield was behind the wheel of his ’32 roadster completing a burnout [...]
Columnist Tells NHRA to Ditch Four-Wide Racing, Drivers Seem to Agree
Posted in General News April 5, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Now that the dust has settled on the four-wide NHRA national event and the opinions of racers and fans are making their way to the limelight, some of the heavy hitter media members who cover the sport are chiming in as well. Jeff Wolf of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is pretty clear in his opinion [...]
Historic Drag Video: Awesome Old Footage of 427-Powered Comets and Fairlanes
Posted in HISTORIC April 5, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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After continuing to lust after the RacingJunk find Comet Cyclone we showed you a while ago, we went searching out cool Comet videos on YouTube and managed to hit the mother load. Ronnie Sox, Dyno Don, Jack Chrisman, Ed Schartman, Bill Lawton, and more legends are featured in this video. It’s old 8mm film of [...]
RacingJunk Find: A Super Clean 1965 Mercury Comet Cyclone
Posted in General News April 5, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We have to admit to a strange, macabre fascination involving Mercury Comet Cyclones. When we were just little BangShifters, there was a fatal accident involving one of these cars in our home town. The one that claimed the life of the speed freak driver was packing non-factory big-block Ford power. Since then, something about these [...]
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